Floyd Landis, former teammate of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, has filed a federal "whistle-blower" lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper reported that Landis filed a suit under the US federal False Claims Act, which allows Americans to sue on behalf of the government alleging the government has been defrauded.

According to the Journal, the lawsuit is currently sealed so its exact contents are not known. But in the article posted on its website the newspaper noted that Landis and Armstrong were teammates on the squad sponsored by the US Postal Service, a government entity. Landis has alleged that some of the team's riders, including himself and Armstrong, used performance enhancing drugs - a charge Armstrong has strenuously denied.

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American bicycle manufacturer Trek will sponsor the new pro cycling team led by two-time Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck. Schleck and his brother Frank announced earlier this season that they would leave the Saxo Bank team to start their own team based in their native Luxembourg beginning in 2011. The deal with Trek was announced Thursday.

Trek has provided bikes for Lance Armstrong's teams for years, including his Radio Shack team that competed in this year's Tour de France. Trek will continue to provide bikes for Radio Shack next season, even though Armstrong has announced he is retiring. The new Luxembourg-based team has yet to announce its full roster and title sponsor.

Tyler Farrar Win Tour Of Spain: American Tyler Farrar won the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday in a sprint finish, while Belgium's Philippe Gilbert retained the overall leader's red jersey. The Garmin-Transitions rider beat Spain's Koldo Fernandez to the line at the end of the 198.8-kilometre course from Guadix to Lorca in southeastern Spain.

Third was Britain's Mark Cavendish. It was the American's fourth stage win in one of the three major Tours, after two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia this year and one in the Tour of Spain in 2009. He was forced to drop out of the Tour de France in July as pain from a fractured wrist early in the event eventually took its toll in the 12th stage.

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French Great Fignon, 50, Dies Of Cancer: Laurent Fignon died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 50 with two Tour de France wins to his name -- but the eight seconds that cost him a third triumph will live just as long in the memory. On July 23 1989, after 21 stages and 3,285-km of grueling cycling, Greg LeMond pipped the Frenchman by the Tour's narrowest margin in one of the great finishes of all time.

Fignon had started the time trial with a 50-second lead only to see his American rival go 58 seconds faster in the 24.5-km final stage.

"Even on the podium I was feeling uncomfortable and sorry because Fignon had also won the Tour," LeMond told France 24 television from his Minnesota home on Tuesday.

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Mark Cavendish Win Tour Of Spain: Britain's Mark Cavendish retained the leader's red jersey after the second stage of the Tour of Spain despite being pipped in a sprint finish by Yauheni Hutarovich of Belarus  here on Sunday. Hutarovich, of the Francaise des Jeux team, pulled off a surprise victory over the British sprint king at the end of the 173.7-kilometre course from Alcala de Guadaira to Marbella in southern Spain. Third was American Tyler Farrar, ahead of Italy's Alessandro Petacchi.
 
It was the first stage win in any of the three Grands Tours for the 26-year-old Hutarovich. "It might seem like a surprise but it wasn't, it's my fifth victory this season," said the Belarusian, who turned professional in 2007. "I came with the intention of winning a stage, I've therefore achieved that."But he admitted that "when I saw that I had won, I couldn't believe it. But I saw Cavendish, the leader, had some problems and I knew I had a chance.

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Contador Absence Leaves Tour Of Spain Wide Open: The third and final Grand Tour of the season is set to begin in Spain, with several leading riders eyeing their chances amid the absence of the world's top road racer Alberto Contador.

Three-time Tour de France winner Contador is skipping his home Tour, which he won in 2008, after a hard-fought victory in France in July.

He joins two of his Spanish countrymen -- last year's winner Alejandro Valverde, who is serving a suspension for doping, and Samuel Sanchez, who was injured in a crash in the final mountain stage of the Tour de France -- on the absentee list.

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Armstrong To Be Graduation Speaker At High Point: High Point University says seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will serve as its commencement speaker in the spring. Armstrong will speak on May 7 during the campus graduation ceremony. The school has attracted some high-profile commencement speakers, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2005, comedian Bill Cosby in 2007 and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2008.

Armstrong also has been dealing with renewed questions about drug use, which Armstrong denies, since ex-teammate Floyd Landis made allegations against him and other riders this spring. Federal investigators have been looking at lawsuits containing old accusations against Armstrong and have reached out to question his sponsors.

Seven World Champs In Aussie Team For Delhi Games: Australia on Thursday named seven reigning world champions in their 27-strong cycling team for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in October. The Australian team will be headlined by 2004 Olympic and reigning Commonwealth Games champion Anna Meares and defending Commonwealth men's road race champion Mathew Hayman.

The Australians are aiming to repeat their dominant performance on both road and track at the Melbourne Games in 2006 and this year's UCI World Track Cycling Championships.

Australia topped the table with 10 of the 57 medals, including six gold, at the world track championships in Copenhagen in March.

Track world champions Meares (500m time trial and team sprint), Ashlee Ankudinoff (teams pursuit), Kaarle McCulloch (team sprint), Josephine Tomic (teams pursuit), Jack Bobridge (teams pursuit), Michael Hepburn (teams pursuit), and three-time champion at this year's world titles Cameron Meyer (teams pursuit, points race and madison) were all named in the team.

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French rider Stephane Poulhies edged a bunch sprint finish to win the second stage of the Tour de l’Ain on Wednesday. It marked the first professional stage win for the 25-year-old Saur Sojasun rider who completed the 144.4km stage between Lagnieu and Saint-Vulbas in 3hr 22min 9sec, nosing across the line just ahead of compatriot Romain Feillu of the Vacansoleil team.

Feillu takes over the yellow jersey with a four second advantage over prologue winner Spaniard Haimar Zubeldia of the RadioShack team. Thursday’s third stage sees the riders travelling the 134.7km from Villars-les-Dombes to Trevoux.

Bradley Wiggins looks set to ride in the tour, in a late change of schedule for the British rider. Immediately after the Tour de France, Wiggins said that the Tour of Britain would be his only remaining race this year. Then Team Sky released their line-ups for.

August and Wiggins was down to compete in the Tour du Limousin in France. But the Team Sky leader has now been removed from that line-up and placed in the team for the Eneco Tour, which runs from August 17th – 24th The other Sky riders for Eneco are Kurt-Asle Arvesen, Michael Barry, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Mat Hayman, Greg Henderson, Chris Sutton and Geraint Thomas. Boasson Hagen is the defending champion, having won the race for HTC-Columbia in 2009.

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